Гендерные исследования

Бакалавриат 2020/2021

Статус: Курс по выбору (Политология)

Направление: 41.03.04. Политология

Кто читает: Департамент политики и управления

Где читается: Факультет социальных наук

Когда читается: 3-й курс, 4 модуль

Формат изучения: без онлайн-курса

Охват аудитории: для своего кампуса

Преподаватели: Уткина Валерия Владимировна

Язык: английский

Кредиты: 3

Контактные часы: 36

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Abstract

During the course we will discuss the theoretical foundations of gender inequality, find out why the professions are divided into "male" and "female", we will learn what measures allow to achieve gender equility. The course will focus on the modern history of struggle for women rights and the development of gender studies, as well as gender issues in the modern public administration and political process. We will also take a closer look at the gender violence. In the end of the course we will try to calculate the aftermath of the pandemic for dicreasing gender equality in the global and national contexts.

Learning Objectives

The aim of the discipline is to get acquainted with the basic principles of gender studies and gain knowledge in its key areas in interdisciplinary logic.

Expected Learning Outcomes

The student will understand main concepts of the discipline as well as its historical associations with feminism and different approaches to the role of women. Also sociological vision of the problem will be received.
The student will gain understanding of the modern theory and its historical background, waves of feminism and challenges for feminism as well as post-feminism.
The social dimensions of hierarchical power relations in institutions and status of men and women in society will be explained. Mainly gender-colored public administration will be observed. The student will study how to analyze main barriers for empowerment women and learn how to identify such phenomena as: glass ceiling, glass cliff and glass escalator. In the end measures to prevent gender pyramid in authorities will be defined.
The student will understand the nature of the harassment and sexual harassment, different types of harassment, and the various views on victims of harassment. Also the language of description for this will be learned. Violence and harassment in the world of work will be discussed. And сase-studies will help to comprehend the scale of the problem in public administration.
The student will learn main principles of gender expertise of legal documents and public administration, as well as ways of shaping gender-sensitive state policy. Experience of Europe and possibilities of Russia will be discussed.
The student will kearn main impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. The global increase in domestic violence amid the COVID-19 health crisis - shadow pandemic - will be examined.

Course Contents

Intro
Why study gender? We will focus on main concepts of the discipline as well as its historical associations with feminism and different approaches to the role of women. Gender role and gender socialization will be discussed as well. Also, attention will be paid to sociological vision of the problem.
Feminism and gender studies
The origins of the modern theory: historical background. Waves of feminism and the concepts of women and development will go through. Challenges for feminism will be discussed as well. In the end we will try to answer the question ‘What’s post-feminism?’
Russian public service and big politics: gender aspect
This session introduces the social dimensions of hierarchical power relations in institutions and status of men and women in society. Gender-colored public administration will be observed. We will analyze main barriers for empowerment women and examine such phenomena as: glass ceiling, glass cliff and glass escalator which result in gender pyramid in authorities.
Harassment
The session discusses the concepts of harassment and sexual harassment in gender studies, the ideas on different types of harassment, and the various views on victims of harassment. We will also focus on discussing not only the phenomenon itself, but also what language of description (does not) exist for this. Violence and harassment in the world of work will be discussed. Case-studies will shed light to the problem of harassment in public administration.
Gender mainstreaming
We will discuss gender expertise of legal documents and public administration, as well as ways of shaping gender-sensitive state policy. Experience of Europe and possibilities of Russia.
Gender and COVID-19
The session discusses the COVID-19 gender impacts. The global increase in domestic violence amid the COVID-19 health crisis will be examined. In particular we will concentrate on the so called shadow pandemic.

Assessment Elements

Participation
0.2
Oral presentation
It is important to remember that a presentation is a demonstration of the results of your individual or joint work. Sample of the themes for oral presentation: 1) WLB of people with family responsibilities. 2) Workplace gender discrimination 3) Gender-equity policies
Essay

Interim Assessment

Interim assessment (4 module)
• Participation (20%) • Oral presentation (30%) • Essays (50%)

Bibliography

Recommended Core Bibliography

Critical condition : feminism at the turn of the century, Gubar, S., 2000
Framed by gender : how gender inequality persists in the modern world, Ridgeway, C. L., 2011
Gender and the labour market : econometric evidence of obstacles to achieving gender equality, , 2000
Lucy Delap. (2020). Feminisms : A Global History. University of Chicago Press.
Mainstreaming human rights in EU CSDP missions : a transversal analysis, , 2012
Making the connections : women, work, and abuse, Murphy, P. A., 1993
Milliken, F. J., Kneeland, M. K., & Flynn, E. (2020). Implications of the COVID‐19 Pandemic for Gender Equity Issues at Work. Journal of Management Studies (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.), 57(8), 1767–1772. https://doi.org/10.1111/joms.12628
Public administration : the interdisciplinary study of government, Raadschelders, J. C. N., 2011
Social stratification : class, race, and gender in sociological perspective, , 2014
Sumbal Javed, & Vijay Kumar Chattu. (2021). Patriarchy at the helm of gender-based violence during COVID-19 Running title: gender-based violence and COVID-19. AIMS Public Health, 8(1), 32–35. https://doi.org/10.3934/publichealth.2021003?viewType=HTML

Recommended Additional Bibliography

Asthana, S. V. aut. (2020). Strengthen gender mainstreaming in WHO’s pandemic preparedness and response policy brief WGH - Women in Global Health, Gender & COVID-19 ; Sumegha Asthana, Sara E. Davies, Roopa Dhatt, Ann Keeling, Arush Lal, Alexandra Phelan, Maike Voss and Clare Wenham.
Cameron, D. (2019). Feminism : A Brief Introduction to the Ideas, Debates, and Politics of the Movement. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. Retrieved from http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&site=eds-live&db=edsebk&AN=1941140
Cathia Jenainati. (2019). Feminism: A Graphic Guide. Icon Books Ltd.
Chaudhury, R. D., Rai, B., Wang, L. C., & Banerjee, D. (2021). Welfare v. Consent: On the Optimal Penalty for Harassment.
Chawla, N., Gabriel, A. S., O’Leary Kelly, A., & Rosen, C. C. (2021). From #MeToo to #TimesUp: Identifying Next Steps in Sexual Harassment Research in the Organizational Sciences. Journal of Management, 47(3), 551–566. https://doi.org/10.1177/0149206320980518
Folke, O., Rickne, J., Seiki, T., & Tateishi, Y. (2020). Sexual Harassment of Women Leaders. Daedalus (Cambridge), 149(1), 180–191. https://doi.org/10.1162/daed_a_01781
Jill Dearman. (2019). Feminism : The March Toward Equal Rights for Women. Nomad Press.
Knott, S. (2020). Public toilets and gender: Case studies by BKK. Architecture Australia, 109(5), 32–34.
Kozitsina, T., Mikhaylova, A., Komkova, A., Peshkovskaya, A., Sedush, A., Menshikova, O., Myagkov, M., & Menshikov, I. (2020). Ethnicity and gender influence the decision making in a multinational state: The case of Russia.
Mukhopadhyay, M. (2014). Mainstreaming Gender or Reconstituting the Mainstream? Gender Knowledge in Development. Journal of International Development, 26(3), 356–367. https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.2946
Nesti, G. (2019). Mainstreaming gender equality in smart cities: Theoretical, methodological and empirical challenges. Information Polity: The International Journal of Government & Democracy in the Information Age, 24(3), 289–304. https://doi.org/10.3233/IP-190134
Sabharwal, M. (2015). From Glass Ceiling to Glass Cliff: Women in Senior Executive Service. Journal of Public Administration Research & Theory, 25(2), 399–426. https://doi.org/10.1093/jopart/mut030
Tatiana Kozitsina, Anna Mikhaylova, Anna Komkova, Anastasia Peshkovskaya, Anna Sedush, Olga Menshikova, Mikhail Myagkov, & Ivan Menshikov. (2020). Ethnicity and gender influence the decision making in a multinational state: The case of Russia. Papers.
Werner, A. 1976, & Lundberg, A. (2018). Gender jobs: Dilemmas of Gender Studies education and employability in Sweden. The European Journal of Women’s Studies, 25(1), 71–85. https://doi.org/10.1177/1350506816671162
Windsor, L. C., Yannitell Reinhardt, G., Windsor, A. J., Ostergard, R., Allen, S., Burns, C., Giger, J., & Wood, R. (2020). Gender in the time of COVID-19: Evaluating national leadership and COVID-19 fatalities. PLoS ONE, 15(12), 1–26. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0244531

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